central russia reeling from friday's spectacular meteor strike left over a thousand people injured and up causing widespread damage and distress. in egypt antigovernment protesters once again clashed with police. of the president and. all the while accusing the opposition violence. by his fellow republican senators u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel will be given another try but only after a week long. it's

a pleasure to have you with us here today. with your news from around the world. people in russia that year olds all recovering from the shock of the meteo that crashed in the area on friday a space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful shockwave and damaging hundreds of buildings including school. twelve hundred people have been injured as a result of the devastating explosion many of them children. going off now reports from the region. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents in shiite instance there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still

quite a handful it's not only about shattered glass lots of old buildings were damaged as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we were around one hundred kilometers just or sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty new cars dropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird of the plane or superman but something much louder brighter faster and many times of war terrifying because big bright like him shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by a media war flying over children's breaking into three parts leaving

a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were literally rocked by a series of massive explosion. and i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone in work so i was a little bit scared at that point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city of dallas bottom line you were there i was told that it plane crashed right into our building then we were told that a wall has been partly dislodged and metal structures inside of a band by the blast wave it was very scary. maybe were able to fool me honestly so naaman on a leader flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world an orgy documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the

center of events in it but you put up that we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are three shots ring we thought some military jets may have crashed or the two were some manmade disaster it was a relief to find someone actually nominate who might be acceptable over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly for pieces of shattered glass not one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was thrown in by the wave that came after the the flash and then we. my ears got blocked and the whole room get got filled with dust just like like a fog it's estimated the media as we varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect you know that there

are telescopes networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos and russia and the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect and track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do to the os what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily even we didn't hit any dust with facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region. and lawrence maxwell krauss from the school of earth and space exploration he says this was an event of shoot scientific interest. meteors and asteroids are commenting and then come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of

jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed but if but if some of that material can be recovered it will be incredibly interesting and important for scientists. dot com right now we've got a special section on the exploding space rock and africa and set up you can check out the exact timeline of the incident as well as going e-mail in to choose and of course first time to counts. i.

this is artsy egypt has once again being shaken by burning buildings and stone throwing protesters with tear gas and water cannons unleashed in response all this sounds rallies against the president and ruling islamists of routinely turn into clashes with riot police there when you don't rest began on the second anniversary of the country's revolt and it's been taking place every week since this time however there was a massive rival rally organized by hard line islamists thousands gathered in cairo to show their support for president morsi and islamic law demonstrators lashed out at the opposition blaming them for violence that has taken at least seventy lives in recent weeks but despite this display of loyalty to the current leadership many

experts believe it's days are numbered. what you've had in egypt last two years is in effect a coup by twelve percent it's the actual number of eligible voters who voted for the sharia constitution and that's the muslim brotherhood and the majority of the egyptians so they are dead set against any kind of shari'a constitution they want to have their democracy they want to be able to breathe a openly and worship god in their own way and not be told what to do now i think the interesting thing is what's happening in washington since the second obama term began i think what we're seeing is on the obama have it that this entire muslim brotherhood experiment of the arab spring has turned out to be a catastrophe and they're pivoting their energies towards china and downgrading their support of groups like morsi so i think what's playing out now is the brotherhood is finished in egypt i don't see any way that there's going to be

a reconciliation and the people the people smell that this sense that they feel that and that's what's driving so. even the brotherhood steps that are peacefully and respects the will the majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly mess in egypt. and to libya now where unlike egypt rallies marking this the two year anniversary since the uprising broke out have been largely peaceful so far but fears of unrest and violence are still strong and there's a mixed mood in the country ahead of official celebrations in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station local media reported the attack was purely criminal and lacked any political motive there is however a growing feeling of discontent over the power of militias the abundance of guns and a lack of government control political analyst of the put a human lucia explains what trends in post gadhafi libya threatening the country's future. we have seen over the last two years in libya

is that this integration of any form of central control paving the way for the fragmentation of the country into three states at the same time there is rampant lawlessness in the country there is an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the criminal type that has spilled over into mali as we have seen over the last couple of months a little bit but more than two months and at the same time we have this but sort of . strife breaking out between the front militias and the country so yes a lot has changed but not for the better so could have you with us here on r.t. today chuck hagel will be given another shot at becoming the u.s. defense secretary after the senate returns from recess in less than ten days a stalling vote by hagar's fellow republicans saw him fall just short of landing

the new job earlier this week details not to what he's got any chick. those who blocked the vote on chuck hagel nomination this thursday know very well that he will eventually be confirmed as defense secretary there are enough votes in the senate to confirm him but the stalling of the vote together with the humiliating treatment that the senators gave chuck hagel two weeks ago at his confirmation hearing this whole process is seen as a message all by itself those lawmakers showed that they could crush anyone who would allow themselves to dissent from washington's core foreign policy beliefs chuck hagel remarks at the confirmation hearing disappointed even his supporters during the hearing which to many seemed like an inclusive mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long an exhausting hearing mr hague kept apologizing

for much of the previous statements he had taken from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senators he kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative song and having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but

they may very well show. how eager many meeting in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old once. he's got nature to kind reporting that assistant secretary of the us treasury under president reagan out of a poll craig roberts he told us how some of hagan's previous comments of ultimately backfired against him she had. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american senator not an israeli senator in this instance come up the coast in the in the last presidential election in the united states the israeli prime minister. supported. opponent move the peace process for the war and treated president of the united states and in very demeaning way. and so obama now is

answering back to the israeli prime minister by appointing a u.s. senator who did a very very rare thing and asserted his independence. of the israeli government. u.s. authorities are planning to file away every tweet ever sent in to up massive occupy . they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do i think. on the priority but i'd still want the nation stopped and i'm just a bit later in the program here on. people in new york with. safeguard or sinister form of snooping. and attempts to study the shaky global economy are being made into g twenty finance heads right here in moscow report on the cracks within their ranks. after the break.

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. with me rule research. there is a new big game against big brother being played all across germany where activists are teaming up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible the players claim their message is serious and that they're protecting their privacy threatening a major protest today. for their actions a valid or perhaps just another form of vandalism if you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you walking through the streets of the german capital that may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of sensitivity civilians

in germany is on the rise and it's not as bad as in other countries for example in the u.k. where millions of cameras installed but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some berliners take quite drastic action and fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v. cameras posted online and points are awarded for the amount of camera smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is an easy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's violence against things that's a form of protest we do not support of the over the support the message. is contest

will culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v. coverage was turning berlin into an all well state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that the only personal belongings or the personal. ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at a public street and so i don't think there's. big brother watching everybody or

germany does. some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on this street view service the advancements of things like smartphones the amount of pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day is sure to make it even more difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera peter all over r.t. berlin. and over our website r.t. dot com right now an image of two palestinian children killed by israeli soldiers scoops the twenty twelve world photo award as it turns out there are even more shocking images doing the rounds on social networks sparking a fair amount of concern you can check them all out though at r.t. dot com if you like. also online where you are russian man raids

a mental health center to rescue his girlfriend claiming she was unfairly sectioned at the request of his mother find out who is in the big trouble now. the finance chiefs of the world's biggest economies have united in chorus against looming currency wars following a high level talks in moscow for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for its hosting of the g. twenty summit later this year catherine off reports. japan is actually at the center of this crisis because of its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have led to a weakening of the yen and basically in tough economic times one option that a country has is to artificially make the value of its currency worth a little bit less so for example making something like this twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means like printing money why would you want to do that because when

you do you value your currency your manufactured goods your goods your exports become cheaper and that gives you a short term economic boost which is something that a lot of these countries europe the united states japan certainly desperately need in these tough economic times there are many problems with this approach but of course the biggest one is that when you start to do something your trading partners will say hey your stuff is cheaper i want to follow suit and do the same thing and that results in a tit for tat economic clash that we know as a currency war what we're hearing right now is finance ministers essentially saying this currency war thing it's probably not going to happen does that mean that that's the case we don't quite know perhaps japan and other countries have gotten the message behind closed doors but the other issue that a lot of experts have really brought up here is that there is no consensus in the g twenty on this issue because of internal divisions for example what you have is doing isn't really all that different from what the fed in the united states does which has been printing money furiously so there's really not

a lot of incentive for countries to sort of get together and take a tough stance on this issue another battle that we've really seen emerge in these talks between the united states and europe over a stereo versus debt basically the europeans have been pushing for countries to stick to agreements that were decided upon several years ago to cut down borrowing and debt they think that this sort of tough austerity measures medicine. this economic crisis come to an end while countries like the united states and in fact i've heard that the u.s. is blocking specifically this push you know want to reduce their borrowing because they're heavily indebted and if they stop borrowing if they reduce their deficit that the theoretically hurt unemployment and other sort of domestic internal issues . starting with pakistan let's get into the world update now where a suicide bomb attack in the south southwest part of the country. and now wounding many more but the blast occurred at a market in a shiite area of the city of official saying it was a sectarian attack

a spate of similar assaults against shiite communities have been carried out by hardline sunni militant groups this year. clashes have broken out between police and kurdish protestors on the fourteenth anniversary of the arrest of the leader of the kurdistan workers party known as the p.k. k. demonstrations took place in several provinces across the country security forces used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds and the p.k. k. has long fought for kurdish autonomy demanding greater political and cultural rights. now st cameras and other kinds of surveillance across the u.s. give its citizens the feeling of perhaps having less and less privacy but it seems what you've done in the past also won't be forgotten the u.s. library of congress is now creating a database of all tweets posted laurie half a news took to the streets of the big apple to find out whether the government is once again showing too much interest or perhaps snooping into people's private

lives. the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that why not they're quite everything are you ok with that no absolutely not. so do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do it i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop there and yeah it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah so i think how would you feel about your government storing

all those tweets that scares me the so because i mean like you could tweak things i mean i've talked to a for about three years now and i kind of member what we had back then if they can find out and just kind of see what it was that's quite scary have you ever tweeted something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if this story. i mean those are a surprise to me and really tried to facebook and they tried everything to do a lot i mean they have the right show and they stay a long stay in beichuan was five it is doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they're i mean what more can they do i mean if in the if you put stuff i'll do those you don't want to be out there that you shouldn't do with where you should just keep your private stuff so you should influence with and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy and the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be

listening. my colleague bill daughter is here in half an hour's time but for now though abby martin's breaking the set in just a moment. some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of trucker dero soda located exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general

sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato.